A prowler wrapped in a ghostly white sheet crouches next to a family’s 4x4 before cruelly slashing its tyres.

The chilling night-time footage, captured by foster carers Andrew and Avril Davies, shows a shrouded vandal creeping up the driveway of the couple’s home before driving something sharp into their car’s two passenger-side tyres and then running away.

The couple installed a CCTV camera at their home in Buttrills Road in Barry in May after having their tyres slashed.